Greg Burns

Greg Burns is a senior correspondent specializing in business and economics at the Chicago Tribune. His column appears Mondays and Fridays.

He previously served as the Tribune's associate managing editor/business, responsible for the newspaper's financial-news section, plus features sections on real estate, jobs, transportation and personal finance. Burns directed the business staff's coverage of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, as well as the collapse of Enron, Andersen and the dot-com bubble. From 1997 to 1999, Burns was a business writer at the Tribune.

Prior to joining the Tribune, Burns worked for three and a half years as a correspondent for Business Week magazine in Chicago, and for eight and a half years as a business reporter at the Chicago Sun-Times. He began his career in 1984 at the Anderson (S.C.) Independent-Mail.

Burns holds bachelor's and master's degrees in journalism from Northwestern University. He lives in suburban Chicago with his wife and their three school-age children.